On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 02:26:16 -0500 "J. Craig Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority
> James wrote: > > > > All, > > I've got an ASUS TUSL-2 Mobo with the i815 onboard video > > chipset. Mandrake detects and runs it without a hitch. But in > > my often vain attempts to figure out why it "freezes' or > > suddenly drops out(especially after a long period of non use.) I > > found out that it's only being allocated 16megs of ram. Now > > according to the manual it can share up to 64 megs. I've got > > 384 megs on the box so, per the manual, I set the video ram at > > 64 megs, in BIOS. No other settings are available there. But > > it still shares only 16 megs (Note it was set to 64 during > > install and I couldn't find a place to set anything different, > > even in MCC.) I checked the XF86Config-4 file (running 4.2.0 > > XFree86 with video acceleration ) and under display VideoRam is > > commented out. When I set this to 65536 I can no longer boot > > into X ..... I then tried setting it to 32 megs in BIOS and in > > the XF86Config-4 ... same results. I then just for kicks tried > > to set it to 16 ... same results. Only when it is commeted out > > can I boot to X. How do I correctly pass to X the fact that it > > should use a larger Video RAM setting, or is this hard coded? > > > > Thanks, > > James > > > > I don't think you will be able to set the ram parameter for v-ram in > your config file. It is commented out because it is for use when the > video card has dedicated ram on the card itself. If you have done all > you can do, to share 64MB in the bios, then you may be looking at a > hardware problem. Be as observant as possible in looking for extra > video setting in the bios. It looks like your bios is telling you one > thing about video ram allocation, and your OS is telling you something > different all together. Have you looked for a newer bios version that > you can flash. Check out mobo/bios home page. Maybe some extra info > there. > > Good luck, > drjung Ok ..... that seems at least that I haven't missed the obvious. .... hopefully.... Yep does look like BIOS update checking time. James > > -- > J. Craig Woods > UNIX/NT Network/System Administration > http://www.trismegistus.net/resume.html > Character is built upon the debris of despair --Emerson > >
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